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[paulhager]

I'm clearly out of practice. New career: LCDR Denzel Washington. Patrol #1 conducted a textbook night surface attack only to botch the withdraw. Took a shell from an enemy DD and returned to port.

Patrol #2, fired 6 torpedoes (3 separate salvos of 2) at a lone merchant at ranges varying from 1,800 to 1,400 yards and missed all 6. I ended up letting it pull away and then shelled it to oblivion.

At least I haven't been sunk.

[donna577]

​What year and boat class?

[paulhager]

March 1944, Balao class.

I'm still on the same patrol - now into April. I think I've played myself back into form because I've sunk two merchants and a CL.

[MWolfe1963]

Have you tried "Travellers Mod" yet? It really reworks damage zones to reality, plus u can now sit on the bottom taking no damage. I got creamed by an escort and all but one compartment flooded,other mass damage. I hit bottom in 400 ft, it saved me. The enemy left, but I couldn't surface so I crawled at 1 kt to near shallows until my deck was above water. Repaired for two days, took off on surface and sunk in a few miles, what I like about mod, u can now sink on the surface. I crawled back to shallows, nothing I could do but pretend to abandon ship.

[paulhager]

Have you tried "Travellers Mod" yet? It really reworks damage zones to reality, plus u can now sit on the bottom taking no damage. I got creamed by an escort and all but one compartment flooded,other mass damage. I hit bottom in 400 ft, it saved me. The enemy left, but I couldn't surface so I crawled at 1 kt to near shallows until my deck was above water. Repaired for two days, took off on surface and sunk in a few miles, what I like about mod, u can now sink on the surface. I crawled back to shallows, nothing I could do but pretend to abandon ship.

Sounds interesting. Reminds me of DAS BOOT.

First time I went to the bottom to avoid a destroyer attack I documented on this forum - career of Bernie Schwartz if I remember correctly. That was when I was run down by Type A/B escorts that had better sonar than a modern DDG. After trying to escape for some extended period with no success, I bottomed the sub at around 550'. That just made the sub a static target and it got pasted with a full pattern, taking heavy damage. I barely made it to periscope depth to fire torpedoes - which missed - and then surfaced and was obliterated. Learned about a sonar fix mod after that...